When an international mass circulation magazine
like The Reader's Digest decides to run an article on the documents
generally known as The Protocols, in which Eric Butler and The League
of Rights are critically mentioned, there must be a purpose. About
the same time as The Reader's Digest article, which basically
regurgitates the view that these documents are either a forgery or a
fabrication, the Oxford University Press released a publication, The
Right Road, by Dr. Andrew Moore, senior lecturer in Australian
history at the University of Western Sydney.

Moore's work is subtitled "A History of
Right-Wing Politics in Australia", but its clear purpose is to
suggest that it is "The Australian League of Rights" which is the
main threat to what is termed "liberal democracy". Eric Butler
receives special attention, it being claimed that he exercises
considerable international influence. Blatant misrepresentations of
the Social Credit movement and historical events are masked by what
purports to be a carefully documented academic study.

We will not at this time attempt to analyze
either The Reader's Digest article on The Protocols or Moore's work,
The Right Road. But by coincidence we have recently received an
article from a Canadian, Peter L. Lorden of Calgary, who offers some
comments on The Protocols, which are appropriate:

It has been generally asserted for many years
past that a document called The Protocols of the Learned Elders of
Zion is a forgery. Supposedly a report of speeches given at the 1897
First Zionist Congress in Basle, it pictures an international Jewish
conspiracy to undermine Christian institutions and pave the way for
world domination. Gerald Krefetz remarked in his 1982 Jews and Money;
the Myths and the Reality that the Protocols - "apparently the
plagiarized concoction of a Russian religious mystic"- had long since
been discredited as propaganda promoted by the Czarist secret police
to justify their own anti-Semitism.

Yet if so long discredited, why have they
become what he calls the most successful piece of propaganda in the
twentieth century? "For a spurious document", says Krefetz, "it has
had a remarkably long and influential life." Could this be due simply
to continuing anti-Semitism? Indeed, it is hard to see how this
document could have been a genuine record of speeches at the
Congress. Would people clever enough to engineer such a global
conspiracy as the Protocols reflect have been dumb enough to let an
outsider take notes of their proceedings, let alone live to publish
them? And is such a plot any more credible now than it was then? The
recent decline of some big Jewish houses, coupled with the emergence
of wealthy Asian conglomerates, seems rather to spoil the picture for
those inclined to fantasize about an unstoppable international
conspiracy guided only by Jewish financiers!

A book which became a best seller in
1972---None Dare Call It Conspiracy, by Gary Allen shows in some
detail how the had simultaneously financed both the Soviet Union
(page 71) and the Third Reich (page 85), like people fattening birds
for a cock-fight. The book is quite even-handed. While it indicts
such Jewish luminaries as Rothschild, Warburg and Schiff's Kuhn Loeb
and Company, it also assigns prominent roles to many Gentile houses,
including and Rockefeller's.

David Rockefeller seems to have had a finger in
everything. many famous names in politics, Nixon and Kissinger, were
alumni of his system, whose imperial reach was by NO means confined
to the United States. (Apparently the surest way to wealth and power
is on the coattails of a man who already has these things and will
"look after" you so long as you do his bidding. Kruschev's downfall
seems to have come about when he stopped doing it). How closely
Jewish and Gentile "insiders" worked together is shown throughout the
book. Chase Manhattan Bank, for instance, was formed by merging
Warburg and Rockefeller units. And a roster of blue-chip American
corporations, along with prominent politicians of both parties,
joined the "insiders" in the immensely influential Council for
Foreign Relations (page 88).

Though Allen's predictions have failed so far,
his book makes a compelling case for the existence of a conspiracy
-or at least a close working relationship between financiers of
international clout. And it seems likely that an even greater
centralization of money-power in the Western world has occurred since
1972. But isn't that inevitable given the current globalization? As
to his thesis that the ultimate aim of the "insiders" was to create a
totalitarian World Government in which they would control everything
as a spider sitting in the center controls his web, we should note
that co-operation between international financiers today -whatever it
may have been in the past - is not necessarily of evil intent. And
that a great many other people have long since come to see some kind
of world government as a necessary goal. The next big war may be
about who gets to control it!)

A SPURIOUS DOCUMENT?

What light does Allen's book, throw on the
Protocols? A negative one, it would seem, in as much as he shows
Gentile interests to have as much clout as the Jewish. Yet the
Protocols are not to be dismissed so easily. For if they are false un
one sense, a reader cannot help feeling that they are genuine in
another! What makes them seem genuine is that they are not at all
what one would expect from "a Russian religious mystic". They show
too deep an understanding both of Gentile weaknesses familiar to us
all and of the sort of mind set which might ruthlessly exploit them
for sectarian gain. Fictional or not, they were written by somebody
who knew very well the kind of men whose utterances they supposedly
report. They express a wealth of hard-headed insight in a tone of
arrogant superiority which is not unfamiliar to us either. We cannot
quarrel with the comment of Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent - which
publicized the Protocols in America around 1921 -that the work was
"too terribly real for fiction, too well-sustained for speculation,
too deep in its knowledge of the secret springs of life for forgery".

Then who did write the Protocols? We may never
know that, but it seems improbable that either a mystic or a bigoted
Russian policeman could have come up with an analysis so penetrating,
and so unfailingly prophetic. "Spurious" the document may be,
historically speaking. But as anyone familiar with current events
will instantly recognize, many passages in it show a remarkable
prescience.

That a document first published un 1905 should
have predicted the collapse of European monarchies, the Bolshevik
Revolution and World Wars yielding little change in territory but a
big one un the map of international finance is surprising enough.
That it should also have anticipated a Great Depression caused by the
arbitrary cutting-of credit, the resurgence of Israel, the current
squeeze on countries with large external debt - and even hinted at
today's explosion in "derivatives:" trading----has to impress any
thoughtful reader. ("That's some "mystic"! Or he might echo the
comment made in 1921 by Ford himself: "The only statement I have to
make about the Protocols is that they fit into what has gone on in
the world situation these sixteen years,. They fit it
now.)

THE PROTOCOLS DIGEST-ED

Since discourse in the Protocols is often
disjointed, we have taken the liberty of grouping quotations (from
Victor Marsden's 1934 edition) in what seems a logical order of
subject. We have also tried to minimize the more offensive ones.
Contemptuous references to goyim (the unfortunate Talmudic term for
Gentiles, meaning cattle) are scattered throughout the work, as
indeed one might expect if the author were a propagandist determined
to present a malign image of Jewry. One might have preferred to omit
such racism altogether, along with utterances more interesting to
students of religious pathology than to the general reader. But the
purported speaker's ultimate aim to see "the King-Despot of Zion as
Patriarch of the World, is so central to the work that excluding it
would give a wholly false impression. For those who ignore that side
(as one can easily do by substituting Untermenschen for goyim and
some other ideology for the Mosaic), the fascination of the document
lies in its Machiavellian practicality, (its being virtually a manual
for would-be dictators is probably why Adolf Hitler knew it so well.)

The document opens with a flat statement that
all "rights" other than that of "might" are vacuous, that "freedom"
is an empty word, and absolute despotism the only sensible form of
government.

ON POLITICS

"The political has nothing in common with the
moral . . . Our right lies in force . . . Violence must be the
principle and a cunning make-believe the rule if we are to bring all
governments into subjection to our super government."

"The French Revolution was wholly the work of
our hands. . .We were the first to cry among the masses the words
Liberty, Equality Fraternity', since many times repeated by stupid
poll-parrots. This helped us to destroy the natural aristocracy of
the goyim, on whose ruins we have set up the aristocracy of our
educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. . . Our
subordinate agents are boring away at the last remnants of goy
authority, striving to overthrow all established forms of order. . .

"We have advertised sedition-mongers as martyrs
for the common good, though none will be permitted under our rule.
This has brought many liberals into the ranks of our 'cattle'. .

"Having used this freedom-shibboleth,we shall
erase that word from the lexicon; when we come into our kingdom.
Freedom of the Press, of speech, of association and conscience must
disappear forever . . We define freedom as the right to do that which
the law allows; this serves our aim very well, for we shall make the
laws!"

"For our purpose, wars must not result in
territorial gain, the true battlefield will be the economic. Our
international rights will then wipe out national rights."

"We need an intensified centralization of
government to facilitate our control . . . We must so ferment things
that the peoples of the world will eventually cry out for one global
government. . . Useless changes of government to which we instigated
the goyim in undermining their state structures will have so
disheartened the people that they will suffer serfdom under us rather
than go backward. . . One-third of our subjects will keep the rest
under observation from a sense of duty. . . The goyim are a flock of
sheep and we are their wolves.

"Though we have sacrificed many of our people
in pursuit of the goal of world-government, it has paid us. Each
victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand
goyim.

ON PROPAGANDA

"Our aim must be to debilitate the public mind
by continually fomenting contradictory opinions and thus distract it
from serious reflections which might cause resistance to our aims. .
. Let the goyim be bewildered, for there is nothing so dangerous as
personal initiative!"

"So that the true meaning of things shall not
strike the goyim until the proper time, we shall mask it under an
alleged ardent desire to serve the working classes. . If any States
raise a protest against us, it is only pro forma and by our
direction, for their anti Semitism is indispensable to us for the
management of our lesser brethren.

"The Press is already in our hands. Not a
single announcement will reach the public without our control. This
we have already attained in large part through our control of those
agencies by which all news items must pass. . . We shall put out our
own journals, disguised as coming from elsewhere so that readers will
in effect be following the flag we hang out for them; these will even
be allowed to feign attacks on us, to convince people they are
reading a free press.... Let them discuss themselves silly!"

"Distraction is one of our principal aims
-through amusements gambling and games of all kinds. . . have we not
very successfully turned the brainless heads of the goyim with
'progress' a fallacious idea except in terms of material invention,
for truth is one and there can be no place in it for progress?
"Progress" serves to obscure the truth so that none may know it
except ourselves, the Chosen of God, its guardians."

"When we come into our Kingdom, ;it will be
undesirable that there should exist any religion other than ours. We
must therefore sweep away all other forms of belief . . . We have
long taken care to discredit the priesthood of the goyim, whose
influence falls lower day by day. But no one will ever bring our
faith under discussion from its true point of view, since only we
shall know that."

ON EDUCATION

"We have bemused and corrupted the youth of the
goyim by rearing them in principles and theories we know to be false.

"To destroy every collectivism except ours, we
shall emasculate the universities. . . banning classical history and
erasing from the memory of the goyim all historical facts unfavorable
to us."

"To discourage independent thinking, our
subjects will be schooled only for the occupations allotted to them.
. . Students shall not busy themselves with questions of polity in
which even their own fathers never had any power of thought."

"Ours is an invisible force, for which Gentile
Freemasonry unknowingly serves as a screen. . . The aims of our
organization of secret masonry are not even suspected by these goy
cattle attracted to it."

"We shall multiply Masonic Lodges as a means of
gathering under our eye all those goyim who (promise to become
prominent in public activity), particularly all agents of
international police, for these are useful both to enforce and to
screen our activity. We puff up their foolish egotism, their need for
any little success, in order to keep them in line, for these tigers
in appearance have the souls of sheep . . They are incapable of the
analysis and observation required for foresight, hence the inevitable
subjection to ours of the brute mind of the goyim.

"Who will ever suspect that all these people
have been stage managed by us according to a political plan which no
one has guessed at these many centuries?"

ON ECONOMICS

"Capital must be free to establish monopolies
so that its leaders shall have political force."

"By centralizing in our own hands the
money-power of the world, we can throw all goyim into the ranks of
the proletariat . . The goy aristocracy benefited by having their
people healthy and strong, we are interested in just the opposite."

"Hunger creates the right of capital to rule
the worker. By want and envy and the hatred it engenders we shall
move the mob. . . This hatred will be further magnified by the effect
of an economic crisis, which will stop dealings on the changes and
bring industry to a standstill. By creating this crisis we shall
throw upon the street whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the
countries of Europe."

"We shall surround our government with a whole
world of economists, bankers and millionaires, because in substance
everything will be settled on the basis of figures."

"We must tear out of goyim heads the very
principle of Godhead, replacing it with arithmetical calculation and
material needs . . We must put industry on a speculative basis, for
in that is our strength.

" Economic crises have been produced by us
through the goyim by no other means than the withdrawal of money from
circulation Huge pools of capital have stagnated, forcing States to
borrow from them and thus become their bond-slaves.. . in twenty
years, a State which has borrowed money at 5% has paid the whole sum
in interest without reducing the debt. . . The State is thus forced
to impoverish its masses in order to pay off rich foreigners. Why
could those stupid goyim not have taken the money they needed from
their own people.

"Goy governments could play tricks with
internal loans but not the external, for they know that we shall
demand all our money back."

(Wow! If a "Russian religious mystic" so long
ago could show this good a grasp of money matters, maybe we should
try to get one for our next Minister of Finance!)